Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
requiring secret or mysterious knowledge;
- Example: "the arcane science of dowsing"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Arcane \Ar*cane"\, a. [L. arcanus.]
Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom."
--Berkeley.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
arcane
adj 1: requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane
science of dowsing"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "arcane":
abstract, abstruse, cabalistic, censored, classified, close,
closed, concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, eerie, enigmatic, esoteric,
extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush,
hypernormal, hyperphysical, impenetrable, inscrutable, latent,
mysterious, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, otherworldly,
preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, profound,
psychic, recondite, restricted, secret, smothered, spiritual,
stifled, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical,
supersensible, supersensual, suppressed, supramundane,
supranatural, top secret, transcendental, transmundane, ulterior,
unaccountable, unbreatheable, uncanny, under security, under wraps,
undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unearthly,
unguessed, unhuman, unknowable, unrevealable, unrevealed, unspoken,
untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable,
unworldly, weird